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Kathleen Valenti

Kathleen Valenti is the author of the Maggie O’Malley Mysteries, including her Agatha- and Lefty-nominated debut novel, Protocol, and 39 Winks, which releases May 22nd. Kathleen lives in Oregon with her family where she drinks too much coffee and pretends to enjoy running.

The Book That Almost Killed Me

By Kathleen Valenti

March 11, 2019

When it comes to mystery novels, there’s a host of ways to die. Scuba mishap. Nicotine patch overdose. William Tell re-enactment. Yet when I set out to write As Directed, I never dreamed I’d nearly succumb to death by book. You see, I not-so-affectionately called the third book in my Maggie O’Malley Mystery Series The…

Murder She Read: Why “Nice” Women Love Reading about Not-So-Nice Things

By Kathleen Valenti

June 7, 2018

“What’s a nice girl like you doing with a book like that?” It was a question asked by strangers when they spied the book tucked beneath my arm. They’d see the book’s atmospheric cover art, skim the title, read the disquieting premise revealed by the back-cover copy, and purse their lips in the kind of…

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